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I've decided to post here to see if anyone knows how to solve this before I go any further.

Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a round of using a combination of Macrium Reflect Free (for cloning the system drive) and EasyBCD (to set up the boot partition on the new drive) things seemed to be working fine.

However, after my first attempt to use Windows backup I found that I could not and got the familiar 0x80070002 error with the "The system cannot find the file specified" message without the filename.

Upon more research I found that the filename is not specified because backup is presumably looking for boot configuration data in the "System Reserved" partition.

bcdedit fails with the error "The system cannot find the file specified" when run from an admin command prompt

the msconfig Boot tab is empty and non-functional

The list of operating systems in the System Control Panel Advanced tab is empty

Windows Backup fails with 0x80070002

I ended up using 'diskpart' to set that partition online but that did not work. Further suggestions online pointed to the fact that the "System Reserved" partition should also be hidden so I changed the partition type ID to '0x17' from '0x07' to make it hidden. Again, that did not work either and I reverted the partition back to '0x07'.

The last thing I tried was a suggestion in the following SevenForums post: Changing Win7 System/Boot Partition without Reinstall. I started with 'bcdboot c:\windows /s c:' but this gave me an error as follows:
"BFSVC: Failed to open handle to resume object. Status = [c0000034]"

(At least I think it was "to resume object" -- in any case the error code was the same.)

I think this action also ended up creating a duplicate boot device option because back in the BIOS I ended up seeing my system drive in there twice after running that command.

So I am now stuck not willing to go further for fear of screwing up my PC. The current state of that drive using 'diskpart' output is as follows:

I am curios to know why you used EasyBCD when using Macrium for cloning your old drive as it should have copied all that is necessary. I have used Macrium for cloning without the slightest problem. Once the clone has been completed just change the new SSD to the same connection on the Motherboard as the old one was. Disconnect the old SSD. Then enter the BIOS to make sure the new SSD is first in the boot order. You may need to change the new SSD to drive C but I have found that usually occurs automatically.

I am curios to know why you used EasyBCD when using Macrium for cloning your old drive as it should have copied all that is necessary. I have used Macrium for cloning without the slightest problem. Once the clone has been completed just change the new SSD to the same connection on the Motherboard as the old one was. Disconnect the old SSD. Then enter the BIOS to make sure the new SSD is first in the boot order. You may need to change the new SSD to drive C but I have found that usually occurs automatically.

Thanks Ranger.

I realized later on that I may have needed to change the connection -- nothing I read mentioned that so I never did. I just plugged it into a free SATA port. I may try that -- but is it absolutely necessary? If it is, that is no problem. I just thought it could be as easy as just moving the boot information to the new drive irrespective of which port the drive is located.

Because the new SSD booted fine after my initial cloning/boot partition swap I never thought anything was wrong. It was only after the first backup attempt, which was about a week after, that I noticed something might be wrong. So the old SSD has been repurposed and reformatted and is serving another purpose on my PC.

Unsure of what misplaced/misconfigured boot information can also lead to (system restore malfunction?)

I know that there are BCD files (even in the "System Reserved" partition).

So while it appears that things look like they are missing (and I do not believe they are corrupt either), they are actually there and Windows may not know how to find them. And I'm not sure how to make Windows see them.

Anyhow, it's rather frustrating because for the most part everything is working. It's just some minor things (and, well, backup) which I am not sure would lead to other problems. I could ignore it and use Macrium to do backups (and hope it works with Windows in this condition). But it's the unknown of what could happen that bugs me

got a sneaky feeling its todo with your disk format versus bios
GPT(EUFI) and trying to use MBR (Legacy) - they are incompatible,
hence the 80070002 error basically means it cant find the file/folder/drive

please post a screenshot of your disk management set-up
and what is your BIOS set-up

Using BCD on a single disk set-up is not required, cloning and a system images, (macrium), are 2 totally different things.

note if your new ssd was smaller than the original you need to account for this.

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